WASHINGTON -- Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, is criticizing President Barack Obama again. This time, it's for completing his NCAA bracket picks on time, when he still hasn't delivered his 2014 budget.

"It's a shocking failure of leadership that hard-working taxpayers can see President Obama's Final Four bracket picks, but they still can't find the President's budget, which is late for the fourth time in five years," Scalise said Wednesday.

The president said he'll release his budget early next month.

Not good enough, Scalise said.

"American families want to see a budget from the president, not a bracket, and it's time for President Obama to take his job as the leader of this country seriously."

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, said this is more of "Steve being Steve" and carrying out his responsibilities as leader of the Republican Study Committee, the House GOP's large conservative caucus.

"I would imagine he (Obama) could fill out his brackets at night before he goes to sleep, or while eating breakfast, lunch or dinner," Richmond said. "This is just more of the same from Republicans. Leave the president alone."

For the record, the president predicted on ESPN that Louisville, Indiana, Ohio State and Florida will reach the Final Four and that Louisville and Indiana would meet in the title game, with Indiana prevailing.

For the women's bracket, Obama is predicting Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame and California in the Final Four. ESPN said it will reveal his complete women's tournament picks on Friday.

Richmond is going local and with his heart by picking Southern University in the men's competition to become the first No. 16 seed ever to advance when it plays Thursday against No. 1 seed Gonzaga. Richmond said he stills remembers fondly the 1993 tournament when the then 13th-seeded Southern Jaguars upset Georgia Tech, the Atlantic Coast Champion, to advance in the tourney.